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Since the first edition of this book in 1995, there has been a worldwide innovation-led economic boom and a subsequent slump, meaning enormous change has also occurred at the level of regional economies. The new edition registers this change and provides an interesting test of the robustness of the original arguments in the book. Not least, more industrial policy making is influenced by the RIS analysis, and many national and regional governme...

This volume contains lectures presented at the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Annual Hampton University Graduate Studies at the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (HUGS at CEBAF) Summer Schools. The HUGS summer school brings pedagogical lectures to graduate students who are working on doctoral theses in nuclear physics. It has a balance of theory and experiment, and lecturers address topics of high current interest in strong interaction ...

This text investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The particular concern of the volume is to bring together fresh empirical research and animate it by contact with theoretical sophistication, without letting that overwhelm the material.

This book provides a broad range of international case-studies to examine how sport has helped to shape national identities, and how national cultures have shaped contemporary sport.

Las opciones tradicionales de estatus politico para Puerto Rico--independencia, autonomia y estadidad--han sido elaboradas desde paradigmas que establecen la valia de la opcion favorecida y el descredito de las alternas. El resultado es la imposibilidad de que el pueblo se decida sin arriesgarse a una confrontacion entre ganadores y perdedores. En este libro se busca romper con el cerco psicologico de los viejos paradigmas, sustituyendolos por...

How can we help poor people earn more from their knowledge--rather than from their sweat and muscle alone? This book is about increasing the earnings if poor people in poor countries from their innovation, knowledge, and creative skills.

The design of federal states from Russia and the Ukraine to Canada and the European Union typically develops from a false set of assumptions regarding the institutional building blocks of such a state. Rather than any carefully delineated allocation of policy jurisdictions, the authors argue that a number of institutional variables, not normally associated with federal design, can be critical in determining federal success. (The variables are ...

Alfarabi was among the first to explore the tensions between the philosophy of classical Greece and that of Islam, as well as of religion generally. His writings, extraordinary in their breadth and deep learning, have had a profound impact on Islamic and Jewish philosophy. This volume presents four of Alfarabi's most important texts, making his political thought available to classicists, medievalists, and scholars of religion and Byzantine and...

A formidably clever book by a man who clearly knows his way around the world... Of the Hornby-influenced books, it is the best in a long time' Markus Berkmann, Daily Mail

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Sting of Justice portrays an American war hero pushed to extreme measures by his perception that violent criminals are destroying the country he's sworn to protect. U.S. Navy Commander Rick Rickman, a fast-tracking F/A-18 Hornet Squadron Executive Officer, returns from cruise and is forced to confront the ugly realities of street life in San Francisco's Tenderloin District. FBI Special Agent Kurt Clemens, his old Navy flying buddy, becomes inc...

This edited volume offers complete coverage of the latest theoretical, experimental, and computer-based data as summarized by leading international researchers. It promotes full understanding of the physical phenomena and mechanisms at work in surface and interfacial tensions and gradients, their direct impact on interface shape and movement, and their significance to numerous applications. Assessing methods for the accurate measurement of sur...

The field of chemical reaction dynamics has made tremendous progress during the last decade or so. This is due largely to the development of many new, state-of-the-art experimental and theoretical techniques during that period. It is beneficial to present these advances, both theoretical and experimental, in a set of review volumes. The primary purpose of these volumes is to provide graduate students and experts in the field with a rather deta...

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The readings in this volume report on specific programme evaluations, offer critical guidance in the development and utilization of instruments for assessing Gifted and Talented programmes, and provide stimuli for the discussion of issues surrounding G/T programme evaluation.

[A] subtle and persuasive account of relationships between men and women from the 19th century through to the new millennium... its sweep is impressive' Economist

Paganism is one of the world's fastest-growing religions, practised in a huge variety of ways. The Paganism Reader provides a definitive collection of key sources in Paganism, ranging from its ancient origins to its twentieth-century reconstruction and revival. Chronologically organized sections include extracts from ancient Greek, Norse and Celtic literature, inspirational texts from the early twentieth-century, writings by leaders of the Pag...

Why does regulation vary so dramatically from one area to another? Why are vast sums spent on controlling some risks but not on others? Is there any logic to the techniques we use in risk regulation? In this work, Hood explores these crucial questions explored. It looks at a number of risk regulations' regimes, considers the respects in which they differ, and examines how these differences can be justified.

This is the second book in a new international, multi-contributed series aimed at providing practical, clinical guidance on how to deal with difficult symptoms related to specific cancer sites. In gynaecology there are a number of symptoms which cause great distress to the individual and their families, and perplexity to the physicians and nurses caring for them. This volume covers the management of incurable disease for each of the most commo...